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* Timestamps telling when the inode itself was last modified (ctime, inode change time), the file content last modified (mtime, modification time), and last accessed (atime, access time). | * Timestamps telling when the inode itself was last modified (ctime, inode change time), the file content last modified (mtime, modification time), and last accessed (atime, access time). | ||
* The preferred I/O block size. | * The preferred I/O block size. | ||
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Revision as of 10:29, 29 March 2022
filename to inode lookup
Inodes store information about files and directories (folders), such as file ownership, access mode (read, write, execute permissions), and file type.
Within a POSIX system, a file has the following attributes[10] which may be retrieved by the stat
system call:
- Device ID (this identifies the device containing the file; that is, the scope of uniqueness of the serial number).
- File serial numbers. (Inode)
- The file mode which determines the file type and how the file's owner, its group, and others can access the file.
- A link count telling how many hard links point to the inode.
- The User ID of the file's owner.
- The Group ID of the file.
- The device ID of the file if it is a device file.
- The size of the file in bytes.
- Timestamps telling when the inode itself was last modified (ctime, inode change time), the file content last modified (mtime, modification time), and last accessed (atime, access time).
- The preferred I/O block size.
- The number of blocks allocated to this file.
Related terms
sar -F
df -i
ordf --inodes
ls -i
- File descriptor
stat
- inotify
noatime
mount optioninode_readahead_blks
mount option- Drop caches
See also
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